As a time of your master degree pass by, or any other "after big study activity", people start to think about the future. And one of the possible "future step" that they consider as an important and very prominent one is doing a PhD.

This blog post offers a collection of articles, which are worth reading if you started to think about continuing your education as a PhD student somewhere in the world. Articles describe really good concepts behind the life of a PhD student. But before start reading them, be aware that most of them are focused on the Computer Science domain. Materials also can be reviewed while you are in the process of achieving your PhD degree or after you finally got it.

Here is the collection of articles I have mentioned above:

• Overview of Science/Engineering Ph.D. Program Requirements
• A Survival Guide to a PhD (added on 17.09.2016)
• How to Be a Successful PhD Student (in Computer Science (in NLP/ML)) (added on 30.11.2016)
• 10 ways to make the most of your time as a PhD student
• The Really Obvious (but All-Too-Often-Ignored) Guide to Getting Published
• Doing a PhD with us by professor Fabio Casati (added on 29.05.2017)
  • Really short, but insightful and actionable write up, which helps a PhD student to understand what should and what should not be done (a practical approach)

Some additional articles related to PhD experience that can be really helpful.

• 5 secrets to surviving (and thriving in) a PhD program (added on 17.09.2015)
  • Drops a light on topics which should be really taken into consideration during PhD study. Describes in a really good way how to distinguish between various dissertation forms and formats. Article also contains references to multiple research papers that discuss various aspects of research process and methodologies underneath.
• 10 ways to make your PhD experience easier and more enjoyable (added on 17.09.2015)
  • Notes of a PhD students who stays close to practice problems and offers suitable at least for him solutions. Most of the solutions are not 'holy Grail' and silver bullet for anyone to use, but they sound very logical and I came to the same solutions independently and tried them on my own
• So You Want to do a PhD? – Your Survival Guide (Part I) (added on 17.09.2015)
  • This article is more or less about 'philosophical' part of PhD journey
• So You Want to do a PhD? – Your Survival Guide (Part II) (added on 17.09.2015)
  • This article contains description of concrete problems faced during and after PhD and offers solutions to them
• researcher organise thyself (added on 29.05.2017)
  • it's about how to organize all your activities in a way, that is will help your further academic career
• How do you finish a PhD when, as a working-class student, you don't feel you belong? (added on 04.09.2017)

Additional collection of "daily business" for any PhD student:

• Getting published: What distinguishes a good manuscript from a bad one?
  • One page visualization with clearly stayed how evaluate your own publication quality
• My reviewing style, or how to review technical papers when you've not been taught how.

A collection that generalizes various researcher groups in computer science and co. :

• An Updated Guide on Where to Apply for a PhD in Databases in the US (2018) (added on 11.12.2018)

I wish you a smooth defense at a successful end of your research journey. And try to have fun while you are working on problems no one solved before.